TERRORISM

Nigeria would likely accept military assistance to battle Boko Haram, and it has vowed to take a more proactive stance against the militant group.

Australian police said five of the 12 women, aged between 18 and 29, successfully joined the Islamic State group in Syria.

Spain's state prosecutor charged the leader of Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, with terrorism and crimes against humanity over a 2013 attack on a Nigerian town in which a Spanish nun was assaulted, court papers said.

The militant group, which seized the Unesco World Heritage Site last week, released a video showing the ancient ruins intact and largely undamaged.

In an interview with Al Jazeera, the leader of al Qaeda's Syrian affiliate said that his group's sole focus was the downfall of Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime.

A new ban on bringing food to legal conferences with prisoners at Guantanamo has lawyers worried about damaged client relationships

Coordination between the two countries "has not reached the threat level we are facing," Syria's foreign minister said.

The gruesome footage shows amputations, stoning and lashing in the most convincing evidence yet to support the claim that Boko Haram has foreign influence within its ranks.

One of the suspects, a 19-year-old student, had planned to conduct terror attacks in the country if he failed in his pursuit to join ISIS in Syria.

Sub-Saharan African economies are on the rise, but the gains aren’t without risks.

ISIS claimed the Monday attack in Tunis, but authorities say it was the work of a lone wolf whose attempt to join ISIS was thwarted.

Sustained combat has jeopardized the peace process between the Colombian government and the FARC rebels in recent weeks.

The Australian government will introduce legislation to strip citizenship from dual nationals engaged in terrorism, both at home and abroad.

Sunday’s arrest of a Coca-Cola subsidiary IT employee underscores the pervasiveness of extremist ideology in Bangladesh.

An area the Nigerian military claimed was safe has been subject to attacks by the militant group.

China says its campaign against "violent terrorism and religious extremism" in the restive northwestern region is winning public support.

Malaysian police have beefed up efforts to monitor social-networking sites for possible terrorist activities in the country.

U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter took aim at the will of Iraqi troops fighting the Islamic State group in Ramadi last week.

The deadly attack on a Saudi Arabian mosque was the first of its kind carried out by the Islamic State group within the borders of the kingdom.

However, the Islamic State group conceded the scenario is "far-fetched" in the latest issue of its propaganda magazine Dabiq.

Pictures posted online overnight by the group's supporters showed fighters raising a flag over Syria's historic city of Palmyra.